Hi Gail, you'll have to bear with me and my instructions because I've only done
it once and still not sure what I did :o)
At the home page of your Ancestry account at the top you'll see *find all your
family tree here*
Click on *here*.
Then under the tree that you want to gedcom (you might only
There are some errors in Geo and Geo covers only current
locations - it doesn't cover historical locations - so the
two may never match exactly.
it doesn't cover historical locations
Locations, counties change in earlier years, so be cautious when
entering locations.
-Tim
Thanks for
There is no feature you are talking about. You would need a program like
animap. I keep the Redbook not to far from the computer. You can go to
the state's webpage and sometimes they may show the information you are
looking for.
-Tim
Hi --
Where do you get the map feature with Legacy where
Redbook shows no space in the county seat spelling.
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Geo database bug??
I had that trouble once- took forever to get things right.
There was one good thing about it tho. It taught me to re-think my filenaming
scheme.
I now use a naming system of:
ID#-reverse event date-Type of Doc.
So for John Doe ID#03388 enumerated on the 1880 Census on April 26, 1880 the
file
Why on earth are you trying to open it with Adobe??
A GEDCOM is just a plain text file and Ancestry should have exported it as such.
A GEDCOM should ONLY be played with in a Text Editor- not a word processor or a
graphics package.
Once Ancestry exports the GEDCOM and you download it just start
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:23:26 -0500, JLB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've made some pretty good messes in Legacy, moon to blame or not, so
I'm somewhat acquainted. IF you have your digital images in one folder
rather than spread around it's still painful but more bearable
relatively speaking.
Tim,
I've been told by other researchers that they've found Redbook full of
errors. I found many spelling conflicts on websites and in books (Handybook
and Kane's The American Counties were my main printed sources) and felt that
the *most reliable* source for information on a county spelling
Tim Rosenlof wrote:
There is no feature you are talking about. You would need a program like
animap. I keep the Redbook not to far from the computer. You can go to
the state's webpage and sometimes they may show the information you are
looking for.
-Tim
Hi --
Where do you get the map feature
Point taken. Thanks for the heads up.
-Tim
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Geo database bug??
Tim,
I've been told by other researchers that they've found
Redbook full of errors. I found many spelling conflicts on
websites and in books (Handybook and Kane's The American
Counties were my
Now that you have saved the GedCom, you import it into a genealogy
software program of your choice. Mine is Legacy. To do this, click on
file, then import follow the steps asking you where to save it, what
to name it, etc. If all went well, then you'll have the folks that you
saw online
Don't you just hate it when Sherry provides facts!! :-)
I even checked the USGenWeb site for the parish at http://www.lagenweb.org/
and it also spells it without the space. I was hoping to find an article
there about the history or formation of the parish but that particular web
site is
An easy to read summary of US Copyright fundamentals as pertaining to
genealogy can be found here:
http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/genealogy_copyright_fundamentals.htm
Jim Rickenbacker
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Haveing using the website, have you found sitefinder ? The one animap
uses ? It is a location you can pluck on the map as it goes through the
different county changes ?
-Tim
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Great! Made from Animap plus ! Wonderful Site.
Thanks,
Tim
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo database bug??
Tim Rosenlof wrote:
There is no feature you are talking about. You would need a program
like animap. I keep the Redbook not to far from the computer. You
can go to the state's
Thank you to all that responded to this post. All the information has been
helpful and easy to reference to make sure future work is used Legally
I appreciate everything, wish everyone the best on this long journey of our
past's.
Christina
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is why I, and many others, recommend making a
permanent choice of using ALL locations, at either
'the time', OR 'now'. I previously used 'now', but
when in a ten year period (or so), Sweden, Britian,
France etc., changed boundaries from ancient ones to
more 'practical', 'modern', 'logical?' I
Thanks Sherry and everyone for the information and feedback on this Geo
Database issue. In my 9 years of researching, this is the first time I've
come across this independent city thing. If it wasn't for Legacy and this
group, I would not have even known about it, since my previous software
Recording the locations as they were at the time of the event is a better
strategy because you need to know where the records were located at the time
the event happened. A county boundary change, for instance, if not recorded
properly, would have you looking for records in the wrong location.
Kris wrote
Yes, this *is* a plus, but it's a real PITA to find where those citations
were used. I now I can pull up a list, but there's a lot of back and
forth trying to pull those people up. Unless something's changed, you
can't just click on the name on the show list list and go to that
I am just now ready to start cutting and pasting my sources from PAF to
Legacy. I understand, however, that there will be a new sourcing
methodology in Legacy 7, requiring sources to be re-entered into the new
software. Do I understand this correctly? I would hate to spend the time
putting all
Bill,
That is not my understanding. Yes there will be new sourcing methods available
should you wish to use them (and from what I've heard I suspect I might not),
but that will not involve the necessity of having to amend existing Sources.
Ron Ferguson
I'm sure you won't be able to open it in Adobe Reader, Gail. If you want to
checkand edit the information in it before adding it to an existing file (good
idea) open Legacy and import it as a new family file. If you want to open it
in a text editor, then Notepad will do the job..
Wendy
Hi Bill,
I thought PAF sources were picked up during the import or did you
import via Gedcom rather than the PAF options? Or have your sources
entered in PAF in a non-standard way?
Legacy 7 will use the current sourcing method as well as the new. The
better entered your sources are now, the
Hi Kris,
If your problem is just with the paths and not with the actual
filenames, then Legacy can refind them easily (well maybe not so easy
but doable without losing hair ;-) ) if you know what the current paths are.
Go to Options Customise - Locations tab
View Current list of Multimedia
Sam,
I have only just found time to look at this, and I have not usedd PE for quite
a long time. When I started to use it I was also informed that there was an
update (abt 7MB) so I down loaded and installed and made an auto-start DVD disc.
My file wasn't big (deliberately - it's bed time!)
Not exactly. Any Sources you create in 6 should not
NEED redo-ing (from scratch), as much as some
editting, or filling new fields. IMHO, if you are like
me, the first few Sources (about 20), I did over and
over until the program and I became friends. That
learning curve is a real taskmaster.
It
Unless you put your sources in PAF into some other location such as the
notes rather than using the built-in sourcing feature, you are usually much
better off doing an import and letting Legacy do the conversion of your PAF
data. Make a copy of the PAF file as a precaution and import the copy.
I should have changed the subject heading before.Kris wrote
I now I can pull up a list, but there's a lot of back and
forth trying to pull those people up. Unless something's changed, you
can't just click on the name on the show list list and go to that
person. I'm really hoping this is
Versions of Legacy prior to v6 can be downloaded from
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion5.asp.
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
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